March 20, 201412 yr Just throwing this out there, is the cache drive the best place for the Xen guests to sit, would it not be better to use the S.N.A.P plugin and have them sitting on a drive outside of Unraid. Wouldn't this give better performance than to use a cache drive that would be multi-tasked?
March 20, 201412 yr Any other applications that are accessing the cache drive will impact the performance of the guest's disk access.
March 20, 201412 yr Author Thats how I see it, just wondering if using a plugin like S.N.A.P and having a dedicated drive for them would make more sence as we cant have more than 1 cache drive to offload these guests onto.
March 20, 201412 yr I'm planning on using a ssd outside of the array, using this method... http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=30496.0
March 20, 201412 yr My concern is the volatility of the cache drive and data loss to the Xen guest. Seems the guest would be better placed away from the cache disk.
March 20, 201412 yr Author I'm planning on using a ssd outside of the array, using this method... http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=30496.0 Looks like a great solution thankyou.
March 21, 201412 yr Dunno about you guys, but I only have 6 hdd space on my node 304,and I DEFINITELY would like to use 4 disk for data, so the other two would be for parity and cache disk. Just hope the disk access speed won't be affected greatly (especially since I'll be using an Ssd for the cache disk) Sent from my SM-N9005 using Tapatalk
March 23, 201412 yr Just done this myself. Bloody brilliant Now if only there was a way to hide the drive from the array so you cant accidentally assign it.
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